Around the early 90's, Iberia launched the Euromini discount fares. At the time, competition was certainly not as harsh as it is today, but still there were some new airlines trying to get their share of the market (or it was just a matter of time before they appeared, at any rate). The Euromini product was named after the well-known Mini fares for domestic flights. Also, the Euromini was a joint trough-fare, as many proposed routes involved a connection at either Madrid or Barcelona.

Some flights were operated by other Iberia group airlines, such as the London flights from Oviedo, Murcia or Vigo (Viva Air), or some Binter Mediterráneo legs via Seville.

As we already know, Portugália is now just a regional operator for the state-owned TAP. This timetable card was issued at the very beginnings of this (once succesful) Portuguese carrier, when it shyly broke the air transportation monopoly in the country with a Lisbon-Oporto route.

For most of its history, its Latin America network has been the main Iberia asset. In the 80's, "Iberiamérica" was aimed at the Spanish market and offered the Spaniard holidaymaker an all-inclusive flight and stay product in the South American and Caribbean destinations.

Back to when it all started : I really like this nice TV spot by
British Airways. Well, if there is a single thing I don't like, is the
epic tone used by the narrator. Otherwise, it is a brilliant short film.
Just taking a plane might not seem adventurous or even exciting for
many nowadays, so it is a good idea to think how it all began, for a
while. Also, British Airways is again using their old "To fly. To serve"
motto which was used at least until the mid 80's.

Many Asian carriers such as Korean, Singapore Airlines or MAS grew an interest in Madrid in the early 90's. These 1993 brochures were edited by Malaysian Airlines in 1993 for the Spanish market. At the moment, the Malaysian carrier was proud of its 747-400 and Madrid (not longer served by this airline) was a recent addition to an interesting network that stretched to Europe in one end and to Mexico City and Los Angeles on the other one.

Darwin is a pretty succesful Swiss regional airline. It has recently merged with Geneve-based Baboo and thus expanded its destination map in Europe. As many other regional airlines, it also flies for other carriers such as Swiss and Alitalia.

For some reason, in 1995 Sabena decided to include me in its mailing list and sent me this news bulletin. Now, 15+ years after, it is an interesting read. The highlight of this brochure is the short article about the Swissair / Sabena deal. We all know this ended as a nightmare which grounded two great European carriers...

Air Afrique started as a really good idea: to build a pan-African carrier which served as flag airline for a number of African countries, linking not only the African capitals but also the African continent with Europe and America. Sadly, it ended pretty bad. At its end, the airline was debt-ridden, corrupt politicans and clerks were often flying for free in First or Business class, and it is said that it was often easier and cheaper to fly between two African capitals via an European hub rather than flying the Air Afrique direct service. At any rate, I was fascinated by this airline in the 80's and the 90's.

This timetable shows the multi-stop flight between Africa and the USA (New York / JFK). Actually, most Air Afrique routes were multi-stop and linked several (sometimes 5 or 6) cities in the same flight.After 11S, Dakar airport was considered unsafe by the US aviation authorities and the Air Afrique transatlantic service was suspended.

Current ✈Brussels Airlines is the result of the former Virgin Express (low cost airline) and SN Brussels Airlines (succesor to the former Sabena). This timetable was published when the merging process was about to end, but both airlines still were using their own brand identities and their information appear colour-coded in this brochure (blue for Brussels, red for Virgin)